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remicade all call it america warming. and if one's primary concern is global warming than look at the emissions on a global basis to make sure actions taken tuned just put america and american workers at a disadvantage instead make an adjustment and changes for the entire planet that is five the entire plan which readily end up affecting americans would end up with the largest in matters of energy that would say why build a new factory in america crooks why keep the factory going when i have to pay far more expensive prices for energy in this country? why not go to a other nations like brazil, indonesia tie-in end that don't have the cap-and-trade cost therefore i can be more effective and cost-effective. >> host: or what about american leadership or a role model? >> that causes the largest in vendors and bumper of which are china and other developing nations too simply smile and say they made our life it easier, that we really have not helped the world that is not the leadership the world needs. what americans can do is
remicade all call it america warming. and if one's primary concern is global warming than look at the emissions on a global basis to make sure actions taken tuned just put america and american workers at a disadvantage instead make an adjustment and changes for the entire planet that is five the entire plan which readily end up affecting americans would end up with the largest in matters of energy that would say why build a new factory in america crooks why keep the factory going when i have to...
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the american free market economy. >> i think a free market economy is the only way to go in america. i don't know if i have a true free market economy in this country. there's definitely a bit of crony capitalism going on as far as who gets to fill and who gets to succeed. but on a small business gale, which is what i think the free market economy is the most true, it's the only economic system i could ever imagine because that's how entrepreneurs can thrive and grow, competition and failing and succeeding. you need to fall a little bit to be able to stand up. but i think it's a portrait of a free market economy it's the only way that entrepreneurs can survive in america is. >> considering the crisis which is had, free markets are the only way out of. the government doesn't spend money on anybody else. when they take it from someone else and later spend it, there is a tax. they only spend about 80% of that. individuals are better served hanging onto your own money and spending as you see it. so absolutely free market. if you look at the economies that have killed off in the free deve
the american free market economy. >> i think a free market economy is the only way to go in america. i don't know if i have a true free market economy in this country. there's definitely a bit of crony capitalism going on as far as who gets to fill and who gets to succeed. but on a small business gale, which is what i think the free market economy is the most true, it's the only economic system i could ever imagine because that's how entrepreneurs can thrive and grow, competition and...
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. >> the new treaty is basically eight about america and rejection. nothing is 80 prevents russia from using these systems and they will be under anyway because of massive withdrawal of all systems with very small numbers with anyone but in 10 years according to the russians' current plan it will almost fully modernize the strategic forces within the -- by 70 percent the official number and including to draw your attention to that, the land development and deployment of the new heavy missile. is the united states by going with a new treaty they are much thicker than now because it will affect. >> you are now withdrawing the old system now and easily they could start a new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. and order to collect nuclear disarmament have further arms reductions, it would be very important to persuade russian political leaders and strategic communities and three principals ideas. the first is that nuclear disarmament will not affect russia or citizens of the world. to put it in a different way that the russian interest it will be paid much less attention
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and america values and america interests as opposed to being an advocate of american interest. that would seem to be almost like a campaign slogan you would have to reduce it in size. >> guest: tie it down. >> host: but the idea is that you believe we need an american president who stands for america. and you do not see that in this president obama who seeks to transcend to be greater or larger than america. >> guest: well, i think anytime the president of the united states travels the world and is critical of the united states, that it's going to lead to the kinds of stories that came out of the british press saying this president has been more critical of his home country on foreign soil than any president in history. and that creates the very real president that he somehow he thinks he is above america or its history or there's something he needs to distance himself from. i think that's a mistake. harry truman and dean atchison following the second world war said america would adopt a new strategy. having tried isolationism and having been drawn into two world wars despite t
and america values and america interests as opposed to being an advocate of american interest. that would seem to be almost like a campaign slogan you would have to reduce it in size. >> guest: tie it down. >> host: but the idea is that you believe we need an american president who stands for america. and you do not see that in this president obama who seeks to transcend to be greater or larger than america. >> guest: well, i think anytime the president of the united states...
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they are taking america in the wrong direction. this massive growth of government, inability to deal with government, failure of schools kafeel leer of the immigration system to welcome the best and brightest of innovators to the country and open borders to those helping america's strength all of these elements together or in periling the future. my optimism flows in the fact the american people when confronted with the truth to the right thing. i think that you are seeing that happen to be the reason the tea party of this gathering and expressing their views as they say that they've been the silent majority too long. it's time to speak up and that is a movement which gives me some encouragement. the people are paying attention and recognize the consequences of continuing down this washington driven past, those consequences are not good for the country. >> host: do you fear the tea party movement passion might lead them away from someone who's a businessman who had the kind of massachusetts background governor of a liberal state al
they are taking america in the wrong direction. this massive growth of government, inability to deal with government, failure of schools kafeel leer of the immigration system to welcome the best and brightest of innovators to the country and open borders to those helping america's strength all of these elements together or in periling the future. my optimism flows in the fact the american people when confronted with the truth to the right thing. i think that you are seeing that happen to be the...
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>> guest: well, they don't call it america warming. they call it global with warming and if one's primary concern is global warming then you have to look at what the omissions are going to become a global basis and make sure actions that are taken don't just put america and american workers at a disadvantage but instead make an adjustment in changes for the entire planet. that is why the president's cap-and-trade plan, which would only end up affecting americans and american employers, would end up with lets say the largest emitters, the largest users of energy would say why build a new factory in america? is a matter fact why keep the factory in america going when i'm going to have to pay far more expensive prices for energy in this country. why not build it in nations like rizzo, indonesia, china and india that don't have cap-and-trade costs and will be more effective than more cost-effective. >> host: what about american leadership for america acting as a role model? >> guest: is the role model causes the largest emitters in the wor
>> guest: well, they don't call it america warming. they call it global with warming and if one's primary concern is global warming then you have to look at what the omissions are going to become a global basis and make sure actions that are taken don't just put america and american workers at a disadvantage but instead make an adjustment in changes for the entire planet. that is why the president's cap-and-trade plan, which would only end up affecting americans and american employers,...
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we believed they united states of america that risk-taker should bear the responsibility for their own losses. and, so big interventions are not something-- i didn't go to washington to do that and he certainly didn't but from day one, he understood the financial markets were about our economy and jobs, so repeatedly i would be coming to him and i wouldn't have to sell him halfway through the conversation. he would lock me up and say listen hank, we will get her this. these are going to be, this is going to be politically unpopular but we are not going to let our economy go down. we will do what it takes to save jobs, save the economy and that was his point of view. and you talk about my mother. he would be telling me i need to work out, need to get more sleep. >> and terms of the other people on the political stage, seem to me that going up to the election , you probably felt that barack obama was both more knowledgeable and had more interest in what was going on in the financial crisis than john mccain. is that a fair assessment? >> let's say, it is no doubt fair that i had the conve
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i really hope america does this a really hope we do this. >> thank you very much. have given a brilliant context whitewater has been so -- why twitter is outrageously popular and it is an important tool to form the consciousness that you talk about. i spend a lot of time in eight and twitter when i was recovering from an illness the two things sereno were the was the tremendous amount of the but the from people and the sense that you met people after interacting with them it was like you already knew them. it is a different kind of human interaction and also i remember a one point* feeling like i have a web of people around me of a couple hundred people that were in my life even though they were not. it is an extraordinarily powerful tool and has gotten locked in the press because it does not make sense in the old context but i would encourage, i hope you make use of torture in your book promotion. >> we are. >> good. i hope people will pick it up asn
i really hope america does this a really hope we do this. >> thank you very much. have given a brilliant context whitewater has been so -- why twitter is outrageously popular and it is an important tool to form the consciousness that you talk about. i spend a lot of time in eight and twitter when i was recovering from an illness the two things sereno were the was the tremendous amount of the but the from people and the sense that you met people after interacting with them it was like you...
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there are views of what america can be that people can agree to. and one of those would be, for instance, a capitalism driven high speed innovation ecosystem that produces universal access to clean and efficient energy. i would guess you can get people around that sort of outcome oriented view. and this notion that of a roadmap, it's the outcome. once you driven by that outcome thing start to fall in place. so one of the things as a policy process i think has avoided is this coming together and agreeing on outcomes to sort of gotten that to some. jim, you're going to add something. >> every major piece of environment legislation has been passed by congress has been overwhelming in a bipartisan way. it is also true with respect to energy legislation in this country. so we have to find a way, we have to be more centrist in our approach. because that's some real progress is made any democracy. there's many great books and the greatest leaders in our country have been centrist who found the weight in the center to make progress. by want to can't commen
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america has to be clear on some important issues. is china entitled for its own @@@@@@#&"@ @ @ @ @ @ @ g $n,ku) involved. that is important. my first recommendation to russian government would be to start being very practical and technical on ballistic missile defense. it would be very difficult to come with a grand design of strategic ballistic missile defense because we still have a balance of forces which are targeted at each other. i think that is something that we have to start the list with strategic ballistic missile defense and take care of rogue states who are the most urgent threats. i think russia should be tougher on iran. i think iran has overplayed their cards. iran is treating russia like the tail was wagging the dog. that should not be permitted. i think russia should take a more tough position, sanctions against iran, for two reasons. this is because iran has crossed to many barriers, too many red lines and secondly because this is a prelude to war in the persian gulf. if it is not the united states, -- if it is not
america has to be clear on some important issues. is china entitled for its own @@@@@@#&"@ @ @ @ @ @ @ g $n,ku) involved. that is important. my first recommendation to russian government would be to start being very practical and technical on ballistic missile defense. it would be very difficult to come with a grand design of strategic ballistic missile defense because we still have a balance of forces which are targeted at each other. i think that is something that we have to start...
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. >> guest: it's my job and and my team's job to drive innovation it into america's foreign-policy and figure out how we can maximize the potential of technology and innovation and service of america's diplomatic goals. >> host: give us the example? >> guest: i will give a couple quick ones, they vary from things doing in mexico to the condo to siberia. in in siberia, for example, we have a strategic dialogue with russia and if you think about the cold war innovation and with something they competed with the russians on and, in fact, if one of our nation's one it was perceived as though the other was losing and now innovation can be a shared resource. scientific and tough logical operation -- cooperation. we're building ties between the new russian government, the private sector and american governments and american private sector so by working together leveraging each resources we can produce scientific and technological breakthroughs that otherwise would happen. that's a positive example. another side ofñr it is fighting against bad guys and dealing with some of the threats in the w
. >> guest: it's my job and and my team's job to drive innovation it into america's foreign-policy and figure out how we can maximize the potential of technology and innovation and service of america's diplomatic goals. >> host: give us the example? >> guest: i will give a couple quick ones, they vary from things doing in mexico to the condo to siberia. in in siberia, for example, we have a strategic dialogue with russia and if you think about the cold war innovation and with...
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out how we can maximize the potential of technology and innovation in service of america's diplomatic and development goals. >> host: give us an example of how that's done. >> guest: they vary in things we're doing in mexico to congo to siberia. in siberia, for example, we have a strategic dialogue with russia, and if you think about the cold war, innovation was something that we competed with the russians on, and, in fact, if one of our nations won, it was perceived as though the other nation was losing. now innovation can be a shared resource, scientific and technological cooperation. so one example of what we're doing is we're building ties between the russian government, the russian private sector and the american government and the american private sector so that by working together leveraging each of our countries' resources, we can produce scientific and technological breakthroughs that otherwise wouldn't happen. that's a positive example of what the innovation agenda can look like. another side of it is fighting against bad guys and dealing with some of the threats that are in
out how we can maximize the potential of technology and innovation in service of america's diplomatic and development goals. >> host: give us an example of how that's done. >> guest: they vary in things we're doing in mexico to congo to siberia. in siberia, for example, we have a strategic dialogue with russia, and if you think about the cold war, innovation was something that we competed with the russians on, and, in fact, if one of our nations won, it was perceived as though the...
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we believe in the united states of america at risk takers should bear the responsibility for their own high losses and so big interventions were not something i didn't go to washington to do that and he certainly didn't. but from day one, she understood the financial markets were about the economy and jobs. so repeatedly i had been coming to him and i wouldn't have to sell him halfway through the conversation he would back me up and say listen, hank, we will get through this. we are not always going to look good. these are going to be some -- this is going to be politically unpopular. but we are not going to let the economy go down. we will do what it takes to save jobs, to save the economy and that was his point of view and he was -- you talk about my mother and sometimes he was almost like my mother to me. ou get more sleep. [laughter] >> in terms of the other people on the political stage, it seemed to me that going up to the election you probably felt that barack obama was both more knowledgeable and more interested in what was going on in the financial crisis than john mccain. is
we believe in the united states of america at risk takers should bear the responsibility for their own high losses and so big interventions were not something i didn't go to washington to do that and he certainly didn't. but from day one, she understood the financial markets were about the economy and jobs. so repeatedly i had been coming to him and i wouldn't have to sell him halfway through the conversation he would back me up and say listen, hank, we will get through this. we are not always...
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another leading banker in america who was entitled to 70 million because of the performance of his investment bank and i don't name -- goldman sachs -- decided to take it all in deferred stock to be cashed in over fife years. i think there is something to be said for the role of government in legitimizing or delegitimizing behavior. it apparently works. let me end the excuse. i've told you why you should leave. this excuse for abandoning government is evil for an outline of principal, it's conservatives can support. two final thoughts. i'm here to stimulate thought, to open discussion, to do what charles murray calls a thwart ex. -- experiment. that means i don't really mean it because it was a thought experiment. that's really true. james buchanan wrote it's helpful to take bold charges. i plan to do that. second, i mean no disrespect for the great proponents of limited action in the economic sphere. but they lived in a society that no longer exist. adam smith and others. he wrote at a time when shame was a break on economic behavior. when transactions often occurred between parties on repre
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way that other places state and other places struggled with in the century including europe and latin america. i think andrew jackson made the right call. we can argue on the economics, politics -- you know, you probably guessed from my funny accent i am an immigrant. i've been here 25 years, citizen for ten years. i thought long and hard before becoming a citizen. i took a test. who became a test before becoming american? there you go. a few of you. did the rest of you even know there was a test? i did well on the test. i think we have a very good constitutional framework and iain incredibly strong position but as far as i can see from my reading then and now there is nothing that says we have it forever. there is nothing written or assured that says you don't get taken over and don't get a distorted like so many other countries have. i feel we can fight it off and i think the jackson of roosevelt and fdr furious did fight it off but it has to be done. it doesn't happen for you. someone has to do it. how are we doing what is the constraint? >> [inaudible] >> another free questions. okay on t
way that other places state and other places struggled with in the century including europe and latin america. i think andrew jackson made the right call. we can argue on the economics, politics -- you know, you probably guessed from my funny accent i am an immigrant. i've been here 25 years, citizen for ten years. i thought long and hard before becoming a citizen. i took a test. who became a test before becoming american? there you go. a few of you. did the rest of you even know there was a...
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so america is ridiculed as a kind of paper tiger who stay will come. and just to talk about the military first policy which is the policy the north korean regime is now propagating. here's a picture of north korea right after kim ill son died in july 1984. you see the we've been -- weeping north koreans. now look at the skies. you have the grey skies which are a symbol of the changing times on the world stage. in other words, norge kim jong-il inherited a situation that was more difficult than his father had. this was the message the propaganda put across because they knew with a famine coming they could see the salmon on the horizon, they knew they could not present kim jong-il as the kind of all round figure who is just as good as economic growth as military matters. they knew they had to disassociate him from the whole economic problems as quickly as possible. they did this through the military first policy. the message of which was basically kim jong-il saying to his people, you know, i'd like to keep feeding you, but the threat from the diocese ha
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we are really happy to conserve as much as began for america. host:jesse houston. caller: i like to thank you for pointing out that there is more oil lost in certain activities. it will leak out anyway. i want to ask about the north sea, there are platforms, several platforms and then pipes running through the ocean where they collect the oil. and then they collected right off the platform. . have a right to drill? and how far out is china able to drill? is the international boundary at 12 or 20 miles and anything beyond that china can drill? host: we got the point. thanks. guest: i think it has to do with how far out geologically the continental shelf goes. so that can vary along the coast. foreign companies can't just come in and drill in our waters, but they can come in with contracts, they can partner with us. and we do have partners in the gulf of mexico. it is hard for us to think of these companies as far, but bp and shell, for example, are european. we know china is out there partnering all over the world, trying to bring new resources and have those develo
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and past generations, tribal regions of north america. is it all just about corporate access to natural resources, or is it also about tribal peoples having forms of social organizations that are completely determined by capitalism and capitalism can't stand anything less than total control? >> i think it's both things. you know, i think it is very, very interesting that at least in asia, if you look at afghanistan, waziristan and the provinces, northeastern states of india, and his entire belt which i have been talking about, it's the tribal regions that our up, risen up and reward. in afghanistan that rebellion is taking the form of radical islam, and the radical communism. but the assault on them is for the same reason. it is to control geopolitically as well as to control and capture resources. it's a corporate attack. and the resistance, i think, is possible in those areas because they have an imagination outside this bar-coded capitalistic society that everybody else lives in, you know. and that is the one thing about india that is
and past generations, tribal regions of north america. is it all just about corporate access to natural resources, or is it also about tribal peoples having forms of social organizations that are completely determined by capitalism and capitalism can't stand anything less than total control? >> i think it's both things. you know, i think it is very, very interesting that at least in asia, if you look at afghanistan, waziristan and the provinces, northeastern states of india, and his...
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if you are a graduate student in colonial latin america you can't get your dissertation published no publishing, you pairs, as the slogan goes. so there is a kind of ripple effect that is moving throughout the world of learning in which everything is connected with everything else, but it seems to me the new technology is a ground for hope. my own ideal, i am speaking as a specialist. the 18th century called the republic of letters. it is a republic with no police force, no boundaries, complete egalitarianism. anyone can participate. it is rare talent counts. in the 18th century, as i have tried to show in earlier studies, this was an ideal that was in really far from reality. in fact, authors and publishers and so on were always fighting. life was pretty nasty, actually, if you were trying to make it in the republic of letters in the 18th-century. but today it seems to me that we have got new possibilities of really reviving this republic of letters thanks to the new technology. we have the espresso book machine, but we have many other things as well. it seems to me that there will
if you are a graduate student in colonial latin america you can't get your dissertation published no publishing, you pairs, as the slogan goes. so there is a kind of ripple effect that is moving throughout the world of learning in which everything is connected with everything else, but it seems to me the new technology is a ground for hope. my own ideal, i am speaking as a specialist. the 18th century called the republic of letters. it is a republic with no police force, no boundaries, complete...
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instead, try to push a more religious view of america's founding. or am i incorrect there? >> guest: i don't hear that i hear. i don't see it. i spend a lot of time and homeschool community. i spend a lot of time in conservative community. i hear the claims of bigotry. i saw more bigotry myself. when i was at harvard that when i saw when i was in texas. i saw more and tolerance towards southern christians, young people that i saw of people in the south being intolerant of people who had no faith or other faith. it is more competent now, and i don't know if you want to discuss this. more competent now because of 9/11. and because, frankly, it is harder, it is harder to support the notion of an islamic faith, islamic religion, which will condemn these acts of violence when we see so few professions by an islamic leaders and spokesmen on this issue. i still think it's a case that americans are enormously tolerant, but they're worried about this business. and i think they're right to be worried about. >> host: the struggle we are engaged in in the world today after 9/11, in par
instead, try to push a more religious view of america's founding. or am i incorrect there? >> guest: i don't hear that i hear. i don't see it. i spend a lot of time and homeschool community. i spend a lot of time in conservative community. i hear the claims of bigotry. i saw more bigotry myself. when i was at harvard that when i saw when i was in texas. i saw more and tolerance towards southern christians, young people that i saw of people in the south being intolerant of people who had...
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about the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, well, it's a lot of bureaucracy last time i was in america i was invited to be on the charlie rose show and as soon as he came and i knew that there was a lot of hostility there and he said do you believe that india should have nuclear weapons? i said no, i don't believe india should have nuclear weapons. i don't believe u.s. should have nuclear weapons. [applause] and i don't believe that israel should have nuclear weapons. [applause] so he said that was not my question, my question was -- [laughter] do you believe that india should have nuclear weapons, so i sit in the same tone of voice i don't think that india should have nuclear weapons nor should the u.s. or israel, and it went on about five minutes or ten minutes. and eventually they never showed the program. [laughter] but, so the point is i don't understand how much should we set it to the language of imperial bullying? you read "the new york times" today president obama goes and wags his finger at hamid karzai and says we are very disappointed with you or something. [laughter] who a
about the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, well, it's a lot of bureaucracy last time i was in america i was invited to be on the charlie rose show and as soon as he came and i knew that there was a lot of hostility there and he said do you believe that india should have nuclear weapons? i said no, i don't believe india should have nuclear weapons. i don't believe u.s. should have nuclear weapons. [applause] and i don't believe that israel should have nuclear weapons. [applause] so he said that...
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they wrote in part -- "america's greatness lies in her people. she will always have men and women willing to ride rockets into the heavens. america's challenge is to match their bravery and acceptance of risk with specific plans and goals worthy of their commitment. nasa must continue to be at the fronteers of human space exploration in order to develop the technology and set the standards of excellence that will enable commercial space ventures to eventually succeed." i hope president obama listens to those words. i hope the president listens to congress which has given broad bipartisan support to the constellation program over many years. and i hope he listens to the millions of americans who understand that human space flight represents our nation's future, not merely its past. madam president, i yield the floor. mrs. hutchison: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mrs. hutchison: madam president, president obama is going to travel to florida where many expect him to discuss the adverse reaction to his proposed budge
they wrote in part -- "america's greatness lies in her people. she will always have men and women willing to ride rockets into the heavens. america's challenge is to match their bravery and acceptance of risk with specific plans and goals worthy of their commitment. nasa must continue to be at the fronteers of human space exploration in order to develop the technology and set the standards of excellence that will enable commercial space ventures to eventually succeed." i hope...
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i am optimistic about the state of america but i'm not optimistic about the state of america in the next two or three years. >> you missed a step, you get married, yet children, build a nest egg and then you meet tony will rest out. >> you double the size of your lot. use-- there are short comes for some of us but not all of us. other questions? comments? longing for mother? not that you are missing your mother but you might be. back here. >> to the lenders see the housing crash coming and if their businesses to make make money, did they see it coming and was it because of the government involvement? would that make it difficult for them to do anything or to react properly? >> that is a good question. it is so often misunderstood. the blame comes down to lenders, but there is a very good book on the history of countrywide which was the biggest of the mortgage brokers and angela mattila who was the ceo, deeply believed realizing the dreams for these people and they were so myopic. they refused. when i was doing the research for my california book in 2006, i did a whole thing on the breako
i am optimistic about the state of america but i'm not optimistic about the state of america in the next two or three years. >> you missed a step, you get married, yet children, build a nest egg and then you meet tony will rest out. >> you double the size of your lot. use-- there are short comes for some of us but not all of us. other questions? comments? longing for mother? not that you are missing your mother but you might be. back here. >> to the lenders see the housing...
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not as much in america but in a lot of other countries. for example, there was an article in "newsweek" called the case for killing granny. now, first of all the reason i don't want to kill granny is because i don't want to kill my grandmother. the other reason i don't want to kill granny and sofistcally and logically and morally it's completely unethical to take somebody's life away for -- as the author of that article made the case for the, quote, economic benefit of society. that's not what we're aiming at. that's not what we believe as americans. if that is, then i must have been left off the ship. but as americans i believe he believes the declaration of independence believes that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is part of them. killing granny to save money on healthcare and which is what the author's case was, is not the best way to save money. it's not the best way to preserve those rights. and for that reason you then get people on the left, especially on the extreme left such as george hagle that life, quote, is somethi
not as much in america but in a lot of other countries. for example, there was an article in "newsweek" called the case for killing granny. now, first of all the reason i don't want to kill granny is because i don't want to kill my grandmother. the other reason i don't want to kill granny and sofistcally and logically and morally it's completely unethical to take somebody's life away for -- as the author of that article made the case for the, quote, economic benefit of society. that's...
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last year, he will go a bit further to discuss obama's foreign policy and tell us what matters for america's future. in the new preface to the next 100 years, mr. friedman writes that when this book was first published, everyone thought we were living in unprecedented times. not only because of the financial crisis but because of the election of barack obama, a president that many predicted would change the political game. only one year ago obama was featured as "time" magazine's person of the year and his campaign of hope was still on the minds of many americans. now admits setbacks on healthcare, the still limping economy and what some view as foreign policy failures, writers, pundits alike are taking swings at obama's first year. some argue that the problems are inherited from the last president who left challenges across-the-board. others say he has spent nearly a year getting it wrong. ... >> his reputation for producing thoughtful and genuinely analysis of international events daily are read by a foreign government agencies and fortune 500 companies. the articles run the gamut from nat
last year, he will go a bit further to discuss obama's foreign policy and tell us what matters for america's future. in the new preface to the next 100 years, mr. friedman writes that when this book was first published, everyone thought we were living in unprecedented times. not only because of the financial crisis but because of the election of barack obama, a president that many predicted would change the political game. only one year ago obama was featured as "time" magazine's...
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if you put american stewart, america will work. yet, in the last two above the last of the 1.2 million manufacturing jobs. if we have an efficient and productive government, i think we can take a lesson from what true weston said. he said it time politicians stopped running forward or against government and started running it well. if we ensure that it are people are getting their moneys worth, from every dollar we spend as a federal government, americans will be for dennis, whether it's because we dealt with all the tax expenditures, which by the way added to about a trillion dollars every year in spending, those tax loopholes or whether it's dealing with direct spending through government programs. a couple of quick examples, the department of defense not long ago, in the early two thousands bought an aircraft refrigerator. they ended up being twice as much as they had expect it. instead of paying panther thousand $825 for the aircraft refrigerator, maybe $32,642. cost overruns, the general accountability office has told this has
if you put american stewart, america will work. yet, in the last two above the last of the 1.2 million manufacturing jobs. if we have an efficient and productive government, i think we can take a lesson from what true weston said. he said it time politicians stopped running forward or against government and started running it well. if we ensure that it are people are getting their moneys worth, from every dollar we spend as a federal government, americans will be for dennis, whether it's...
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[applause] >> that will make america work. [applause] >> let me close by reiterating what i said to you. i hope nobody here spends one wit of time thinking about the 2012 presidential election. we can take care of that after the november 2010 election, okay? [applause] >> the critical issues -- the critical issues that i've just sort of touched on, tiptoed across the top of -- we ought to start fighting all those issues now. we got to win this election. [applause] >> being from mississippi i'm naturally proud of mississippians. [applause] >> one mississippian i'm proud of -- one mississippian i'm proud of is fred smith. fred smith is the founder and ceo of fedex. and fred is born in march, mississippi. and fred has an expression i want to share with you. fred smith says, the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. [laughter] [applause] >> the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing don't get distracted by 2012 is what fred smith is telling you. don't take your eye off the ball. remember what matters. a
[applause] >> that will make america work. [applause] >> let me close by reiterating what i said to you. i hope nobody here spends one wit of time thinking about the 2012 presidential election. we can take care of that after the november 2010 election, okay? [applause] >> the critical issues -- the critical issues that i've just sort of touched on, tiptoed across the top of -- we ought to start fighting all those issues now. we got to win this election. [applause] >>...
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government and how into the '50s and '60s as the cold war became more a part of american life our america learned about the soviet union and historians, people who knew the language, study the economy, literature and bring us through the point* to understand rise and fall of the field of sovietology that was a large part of the population. >> the final book? living in the '80s you can see ronald reagan and the stock exchange and madonna. >> it is strange to add it a book on a point* one has lived through. this i thought was important to do more history about especially for students because the college-age students think of this as history just like world war ii. this is original essays that were put together and has a large range of writers and one piece by a conservative politician and also a piece by a record producer so we have a fun book and something in terms of being an editor it is great to think of this is starkly and not just what i remembered but to work with historians to did archival research to learn things about affirmative action of public-private
government and how into the '50s and '60s as the cold war became more a part of american life our america learned about the soviet union and historians, people who knew the language, study the economy, literature and bring us through the point* to understand rise and fall of the field of sovietology that was a large part of the population. >> the final book? living in the '80s you can see ronald reagan and the stock exchange and madonna. >> it is strange to add it a book on a point*...
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many actions being taken today are contrary to america's real needs. as far as the undesirability of nuclear disarmament, without strong responsible nuclear weapon states to maintain order, we would exist in a world of frequent nuclear detonatiodetonations by aggressors, rogue states, failed and failing states, fanatics, proxy organizations, terrorists, extortionists, criminals, even disaffected individuals. moving to my second topic, one of president obama's principle initiatives is to devalue nuclear weapons. this also is highly counterproductive. nuclear weapons have repeatedly demonstrated their immense value to the world. they brought an end to the most destructive war in history, in the process, saving a million lives. for a half century thereafter, they prevented a much more devastating war. also during that cold war, nuclear weapons were a huge factor in preventing proliferation. even today, the presence of nuclear weapons in some hands is acting as a damper on their use by others. also, by their very presence of nuclear weapons have banished l
many actions being taken today are contrary to america's real needs. as far as the undesirability of nuclear disarmament, without strong responsible nuclear weapon states to maintain order, we would exist in a world of frequent nuclear detonatiodetonations by aggressors, rogue states, failed and failing states, fanatics, proxy organizations, terrorists, extortionists, criminals, even disaffected individuals. moving to my second topic, one of president obama's principle initiatives is to devalue...
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without dorothy height, america might be a very different place today. we owe a great deal for the difference she has made and for the lifetime of hard work she has devoted to her fellow citizens. so with a sad heart, mr. president, i come before this body to eulogize one of our pioneers, one of our greatest americans, one of the major contributors to the civil rights movement to advance the cause of equality and justice in the united states of america. with that, mr. president, i yield thelo and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. brown: i asunanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: mr. president, for too long the interests of the middle class have gone ignored, simply an afterthought in a financial system that helped a few americans help themselves to accumulate immense wealth while middle-class wages stagnate. whenever i go in ohio, the story is the same from toledo, to marietta, from ashtabula to middle town.
without dorothy height, america might be a very different place today. we owe a great deal for the difference she has made and for the lifetime of hard work she has devoted to her fellow citizens. so with a sad heart, mr. president, i come before this body to eulogize one of our pioneers, one of our greatest americans, one of the major contributors to the civil rights movement to advance the cause of equality and justice in the united states of america. with that, mr. president, i yield thelo...
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it's all over america. on a day like today, when they see that their taxes have increased by some $670 billion, just in the last year, that this will fuel the fire that's spreading across america and will culminate this coming november. madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. coburn: i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. under the previous order the leadership time is reserved, under the previous order -- i'm sorry. morning business is closed. under the previous order the senate will resume consideration of h.r. 4851, which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar 323, h.r. 4851, an act to provide a temporary extension of certain programs and for other purposes. mr. coburn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: thank you. i appreciate it. and i appreciate senator reid in terms of his working with us. we're going to try to work through the amendme
it's all over america. on a day like today, when they see that their taxes have increased by some $670 billion, just in the last year, that this will fuel the fire that's spreading across america and will culminate this coming november. madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. coburn: i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. under the previous order the leadership time is...
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but we have partners who are less willing to cut their potentials than russia or america. and we have to convince them to go that way. but talking about the further process talks, we are ready for that. and we are going to engage in this. this is not natural. but today we have made a threshold ceiling for the next 10 years. and this is enough now. and if there is a need, then we will discuss the new levels. but these 10 years will be peaceful for us as long as we ratify the treaty. and if -- the thing written in preamble it will not happen. it says about the link between abm and strategic offensive arms. this is a hard issue. we have been discussing it for long. and we have created this formula that the party acknowledged this link. and also we have worked out a principal or a statement that the treaty will be in effect as long as the development of abm or other honors developmental will not contradict the principals of this treaty. this is a sensitive moment as president obama, i'm optimistic about this. and we hope we will not stop the treaty or withdraw from it. having
but we have partners who are less willing to cut their potentials than russia or america. and we have to convince them to go that way. but talking about the further process talks, we are ready for that. and we are going to engage in this. this is not natural. but today we have made a threshold ceiling for the next 10 years. and this is enough now. and if there is a need, then we will discuss the new levels. but these 10 years will be peaceful for us as long as we ratify the treaty. and if --...
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the c-span video library, cable's latest gift to america. >> all this month see the winners of the c-span's student cam video documentary competition, middle and high school students from 45 states submitted videos on one of the country's greatest strengths or a challenge the country is facing. watch the top winning videos every morning on c-span at 6:30 eastern. and at 8:30 meet the students who made them. for a preview of all the winner's visit studentcam.org. >> we will look at the justice department's antitrust division. talks about lawsuits against current mergers including ticketmaster. she is joined by several deputies during this hour-long discussion hosted by the american bar association. >> welcome to the 60 minutes with the u.s. department of justice conference call. during the presentation of participants will be in a listen only mode. after will we have a question and answer session. as a reminder today the conference is being recorded. friday march 26th, 2010. i will now like to turn the conference over its share of the antitru
the c-span video library, cable's latest gift to america. >> all this month see the winners of the c-span's student cam video documentary competition, middle and high school students from 45 states submitted videos on one of the country's greatest strengths or a challenge the country is facing. watch the top winning videos every morning on c-span at 6:30 eastern. and at 8:30 meet the students who made them. for a preview of all the winner's visit studentcam.org. >> we will look at...
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that is critical to our industry in america being competitive. really, as a very practical matter, if we can develop a sound market, we want to be -- and we can develop a sound market, we want to be the nation where most people go to develop their derivatives, because it is a big industry and something we should keep on shore. third issue, consumer protection. time is up? fourth issue. the presiding officer: the senator has used ten minutes. mr. gregg: i see where the senator from louisiana wants to speak. but the point here is pretty obvious. this is not a bipartisan issue. we can resolve the issue of financial regulatory reform if we sit down and do it in a constructive, thoughtful way. step back, be mature, and take an approach that's thoughtful versus wrapped in hyperbole and populism of the moment, and i certainly hope we'll take that process and go forward. i yield the floor. mr. vitter: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: thank you, madam president. madam president, i join my colleagues in urging
that is critical to our industry in america being competitive. really, as a very practical matter, if we can develop a sound market, we want to be -- and we can develop a sound market, we want to be the nation where most people go to develop their derivatives, because it is a big industry and something we should keep on shore. third issue, consumer protection. time is up? fourth issue. the presiding officer: the senator has used ten minutes. mr. gregg: i see where the senator from louisiana...
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but i would say i am in partial to america. american exceptional was on that we have pretty much a power struggles but we have pretty much worked this out about as well -- >> host: the way we've worked it out is the founders gave to america one of the greatest gifts that was on usable especially for the well-traveled putative founders which was a good natured religious tolerance that even if you are the mostly of constantinople you would get to preach in philadelphia, and in some ways these debates seem to downplay this notion of tolerance instead to try to push a more religious view of america's founding or am i incorrect? >> guest: i don't see it, i hear the charge, but i don't see it. i spent a lot of time in the home-schooled community and a lot of time in conservative communities. i hear the claims of bigotry. i saw more bigotry myself when i was at harvard and i saw when i was in texas. a psalm or intolerance toward southern christian young people and i saw people in this house being intolerant of people who had no faith
but i would say i am in partial to america. american exceptional was on that we have pretty much a power struggles but we have pretty much worked this out about as well -- >> host: the way we've worked it out is the founders gave to america one of the greatest gifts that was on usable especially for the well-traveled putative founders which was a good natured religious tolerance that even if you are the mostly of constantinople you would get to preach in philadelphia, and in some ways...
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she is also the author of women and the historical enterprise in america. julie. [applause] >> thank you gloria. thank you. thank you. there are a lot of people and i am thrilled. a lot of people i know. i have a couple of students here who are already raising signs which is great. farouk students have to in three jobs at one time so the fact do you guys are here, i am thrilled. a lot of people from the feminiss. of course i have to thank the people from science and the arts, the graduate center, the feminist press and of course i want to thank c-span and everybody who put this all together today so thank you so much. it is a very rare opportunity we get to talk about the stuff we write about. i teach all these classes and i talk about american history but i never get to talk about the stuff that i'm actually writing so this is great. it is a very sort of solitary business. when you are writing a book in you hunker down. and i never get to talk about it so this is the perfect opportunity. i was hoping if it is okay with you guys, if we talk a little bit about my p
she is also the author of women and the historical enterprise in america. julie. [applause] >> thank you gloria. thank you. thank you. there are a lot of people and i am thrilled. a lot of people i know. i have a couple of students here who are already raising signs which is great. farouk students have to in three jobs at one time so the fact do you guys are here, i am thrilled. a lot of people from the feminiss. of course i have to thank the people from science and the arts, the graduate...
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i'd like to go into more stores in america and find "made in america" stamped on the product. and when it comes to this type of technology, solar panels, wind turbines, you know, there's no reason why we can't build these in the united states so that we are achieving many goals at once. clean energy alternatives, reducing our dependence on foreign oil, creating good-paying jobs in industries with a future, and in the process doing the right thing for mother earth. earth day is a time to reflect on that. i've often spent my earth day back in illinois downstate with farmers. i can't think of any people in america closer to mother nature every single day of their lives. and most of them are not all that comfortable with these so-called environmentalists. they just feel like they're too theoretical and not grounded in the reality that farmers face in their lives. but i've tried to draw them together in conversation and almost inevitably they come up with some common approaches, whether we're talking about soil and water conservation, the reduction of the use of chemicals on the la
i'd like to go into more stores in america and find "made in america" stamped on the product. and when it comes to this type of technology, solar panels, wind turbines, you know, there's no reason why we can't build these in the united states so that we are achieving many goals at once. clean energy alternatives, reducing our dependence on foreign oil, creating good-paying jobs in industries with a future, and in the process doing the right thing for mother earth. earth day is a time...
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and the fact that america has found new gas opportunities, this is not bad. that will help us be more attentive to what our possibilities, our opportunities, whatever we say. once 50 years energy revolution happens, first it was cold, then oil, then gas, and nuclear power, and i believe in 30 to 50 years from now, the situation in energies here will be different in both of our country. i don't know if we will use hydrogen power, but but being complacent with the gas and oil is not good today. >> you mentioned in your opening remarks, and you may from time to time and are going to be meeting shortly with your fellow leaders of that grouping. when you get together with them, do you talk about these issues and compare perspectives and plans? and what do you see as the future of that grouping? [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: i not only speak to them, after this many i am going to latin america where the brick summit will be held, and this group, this community of countries today is formed already. this doesn't mean that this is a full-fledged organizat
and the fact that america has found new gas opportunities, this is not bad. that will help us be more attentive to what our possibilities, our opportunities, whatever we say. once 50 years energy revolution happens, first it was cold, then oil, then gas, and nuclear power, and i believe in 30 to 50 years from now, the situation in energies here will be different in both of our country. i don't know if we will use hydrogen power, but but being complacent with the gas and oil is not good today....
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the obama campaign always said america has transcended race. we are better people, we have moved past this. we have had a long and difficult history but we are better than we are and better than we used to be. so rather than confronting the bias directly with the obama campaign it is called people to their better angels and a lot of what the research suggests and is counterintuitive is you might be less successful at calling people out on their body is precisely for this issue which is that even when you are conscious of the unconscious bias within you would doesn't necessarily change behavior. in the back, yes. >> i'm curious about moving this to a different look about scott brown for example and kind of what the redials about the human brain and how massachusetts most liberal state in the union [inaudible] what's that about? [laughter] >> the short and honest answer is i don't know. i think in some ways this becomes a parlor game where you would try to apply the bias to the situations and i can toss out hypotheses and give you my impressions
the obama campaign always said america has transcended race. we are better people, we have moved past this. we have had a long and difficult history but we are better than we are and better than we used to be. so rather than confronting the bias directly with the obama campaign it is called people to their better angels and a lot of what the research suggests and is counterintuitive is you might be less successful at calling people out on their body is precisely for this issue which is that...
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so we were one of the most under part cities in america and our children were suffering from that on different levels. my first year i had a fight break out in the early days between little leagues and other sports in my office because there was no usable field. it we have a situation where type two diabetes is rampant in our city because kids have no place to go out and play you're even more so which is important to me is that since you do not have these people -- space is readily available he started do ultimately undermine the kenaf's and harsh social beings and as a result with you dislodge the social connections that make strong communities. we immediately very aggressively tried to return our citizens to nature and really rediscovering that which is themselves by tearing down walls and barriers, moving to rediscover rivers, opening up parkway and taking sitting down center of them into useful park space and a final thing i'll say is not just within the newark but the beautiful areas around our city so we started to try to expand programs going out to our pineland in new jersey
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moment a little of the courage and vigor of this, our youthful, 35th resident of the united states of america. may our lord's birth date and the new year bring peace and comfort to you, caroline m. littlejohn. respectfully. so my final point to tonight about these letters to say this, the founders of our country thought that a democracy would work against all of the ancient philosophers and political analysts of their time who worried that a democracy would deteriorate into anarchy. they believed otherwise because the thought and fear with wisdom and virtue and the people and that we could trust the greatest decision to be made. , by common folk. and what you see in this collection of letters is the compassion, the sincerity, the decency of the american people. on all the traditions across race, cross religion, across local belief, expressing their own heartfelt very powerfully, very thoughtfully and as sad as all this is, we can take away from it is that there is in the core of our country an extraordinary resource of the people themselves heard to end on that note. thank you so much for com
moment a little of the courage and vigor of this, our youthful, 35th resident of the united states of america. may our lord's birth date and the new year bring peace and comfort to you, caroline m. littlejohn. respectfully. so my final point to tonight about these letters to say this, the founders of our country thought that a democracy would work against all of the ancient philosophers and political analysts of their time who worried that a democracy would deteriorate into anarchy. they...
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america's reach into space is linked with america tofs training of scientists and mathematicians who will drive our 21st century innovations. and i know there is no one in the senate any more commited to stem education than you, madam chair. that is why i've chosen this week to honor a great federal employee from nasa who dedicated her career to promoting stem education. dorothy metcalf lindenberger, dottie took an unusual path to space. as a child she was always interested in space exploration. when she lost a trip to space camp, her parents saved up money for her to go. it turned out to be an excellent investment not only in her daughter's future but in the many students she inspired. she pursued her love of science in college where she majored in college. she began teaching in hudson bay high school in vancouver, washington, in 1999. in her five years there as a science teacher, she won awards for achievement an avid marathon runner, dottie coached the school's cross country team. in 2003 one of her students asked the question that would change her life. the student curiously aske
america's reach into space is linked with america tofs training of scientists and mathematicians who will drive our 21st century innovations. and i know there is no one in the senate any more commited to stem education than you, madam chair. that is why i've chosen this week to honor a great federal employee from nasa who dedicated her career to promoting stem education. dorothy metcalf lindenberger, dottie took an unusual path to space. as a child she was always interested in space...
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i dissemble attitude towards her relationship with america. it's an immensely, immensely important special relationship but it should not be a one-way street. we shouldn't always automatically do what our american friends tell us to do. we have to make sure we act on the state in our interests, not simply at the beck and call of anybody else. >> i persuade the americans to be part of a cheap 20 that dealt with the banking crisis and i'm still pushing the americans to take action on climate change as well. but david, i mean, your anti-europeanism becomes more and more obvious as the debate goes on. it's a big society at home, but little britain abroad. easy to read and your policies. >> or just try different view, the other two parties because they don't want actually part that stands up for assaulting her. you keep going on about these alliances. one of our main allies of the party of the polish president who tragically died in an accident who both a politician standing next to me praise to the great statesman so i think we can hear no more of
i dissemble attitude towards her relationship with america. it's an immensely, immensely important special relationship but it should not be a one-way street. we shouldn't always automatically do what our american friends tell us to do. we have to make sure we act on the state in our interests, not simply at the beck and call of anybody else. >> i persuade the americans to be part of a cheap 20 that dealt with the banking crisis and i'm still pushing the americans to take action on...
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it came from mexico or south america. this is a war against our own people, and a by-product is it has in 36 months slaughtered 23,000 mexicans. >> host: "murder city" is the book. amherst, new york, you're on the air. >> caller: hi. my question for mr. bowden is how much of a factor does he feel is corruption within law enforcement in this country with regard to drugs? how much of a factor is that in the problem of the drugs coming in from mexico? >> host: mr. bowden. >> guest: that's a very good question. look, one of the -- mexico is corrupt, you know? that's part of the system. but i have watched since i know people in dea, i have friends in the border patrol, i know people in customs. what this war has done is increasingly corrupt them. if you're in the border patrol, say after five years you're making 75 grand a year, and you know your job is a failure. every day most of the people are getting through. and so what's the difference if you take $100 a head to let a truckload go through? we're taking basically decent a
it came from mexico or south america. this is a war against our own people, and a by-product is it has in 36 months slaughtered 23,000 mexicans. >> host: "murder city" is the book. amherst, new york, you're on the air. >> caller: hi. my question for mr. bowden is how much of a factor does he feel is corruption within law enforcement in this country with regard to drugs? how much of a factor is that in the problem of the drugs coming in from mexico? >> host: mr....
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there are no monopolies in america. this is cowboy capitalism, the most competitive system the world has ever seen. as mike suggested we are less serum of that. we had the experience of what happened with lehman brothers and the meltdown and the experience of what we learned from the debate about health insurance and learning how much power is concentrated in private hands. we had the experience of watching films like food ink or reading michael pailin's books and learning what is going on in the food system. most of us think we live in a free market system. but it is important for us to take an honest look at what is taking place in our republic today. one way to do this is to start with books. you guys are here because you actually really deeply loved books. this is a book festival. i spent a lot of time talking to people in the book industry in recent months and the reason is because last fall there was as some of you may remember a big price fight between amazon and walmart over books. .. in front of the press and b
there are no monopolies in america. this is cowboy capitalism, the most competitive system the world has ever seen. as mike suggested we are less serum of that. we had the experience of what happened with lehman brothers and the meltdown and the experience of what we learned from the debate about health insurance and learning how much power is concentrated in private hands. we had the experience of watching films like food ink or reading michael pailin's books and learning what is going on in...
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this plan basically they say, and i'll paraphrase, barack obama has lowered the ambitious of america. space is not the final frontier. earth is. that's part of the article. under the "florida today" article that appeared april 16. it says obama doesn't get it. space is last frontier. president obama pulled the plug on our space program here in thursday. although he masked it with some vague long-term suggestions. the late president john k. kennedy must have turned over. he turn -- launched the moon landing program, because he understood that any nation that wants to remain number one on earth must also be number one in space. a couple of questions. it's my understanding, mr. administrator, that there's been a lot of internal administration on how to circumvent that includes nasa's ability to terminate or alter the constellation program. given the important of this issue, we need to understand the legality of the decisions nasa is making, relating to the program of records. especially in view of legislation. would you provide to this committee, the appropriations committee within the n
this plan basically they say, and i'll paraphrase, barack obama has lowered the ambitious of america. space is not the final frontier. earth is. that's part of the article. under the "florida today" article that appeared april 16. it says obama doesn't get it. space is last frontier. president obama pulled the plug on our space program here in thursday. although he masked it with some vague long-term suggestions. the late president john k. kennedy must have turned over. he turn --...
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but the amazing thing about america is it is self corrective capacity. and the capacity for self renewal. i'm also convinced after the two jobs, walter come of secretary of education and drug czar, that the key is to make the institutions that are supposed to be positive are positive. make better families, their churches, better schools. anyway, that whole thing is very interesting, became very bipartisan. i was a good thing. and conrad joined is that a bunch of people joined us, and we had some success. but it was a very interesting point. you know, i told the audience of the radio show, you know, i have a lot of people in despair about six months ago. they say country is going to socialism. they were sending stuff with hammers and sickle. i said it's not that bad. just wait. and it is already shifting. it is correcting. it is coming back the other way, and if you don't like the way things are going in america, stick around. >> host: einstein wrote about him at one point, that was the thing that amazed me the most about america. because he would get all
but the amazing thing about america is it is self corrective capacity. and the capacity for self renewal. i'm also convinced after the two jobs, walter come of secretary of education and drug czar, that the key is to make the institutions that are supposed to be positive are positive. make better families, their churches, better schools. anyway, that whole thing is very interesting, became very bipartisan. i was a good thing. and conrad joined is that a bunch of people joined us, and we had...
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. >> are think tanks important to our system of governance in america? >> i frankly don't understand what the think tank is and is supposed to be. it's often what you have is -- speaking in general here, they'll serve interest of one sort or another. whether ideological or material. but you have to present what they do in terms of science. and that's, you know, some of them, i think, do very valuable work. in my own case i felt like -- there was a certain cognitive style that was demanded in this environment. and this style demanded that i project an image of rationality. but not indulge too much in actual reasoning because it could kind of lead off in the wrong direction. so it was sort of the -- it was not -- it was not at all like genuine academic inquiry. and in that sense was quite disillusioning. whereas, fixing motorcycles is genuinely rational. often frustrating but never irrational. >> what's a stickastic art. >> it's a term of randomness. it's what aristotle describes as medicine. the doctor fixes bodies he did not make himself. like a builder
. >> are think tanks important to our system of governance in america? >> i frankly don't understand what the think tank is and is supposed to be. it's often what you have is -- speaking in general here, they'll serve interest of one sort or another. whether ideological or material. but you have to present what they do in terms of science. and that's, you know, some of them, i think, do very valuable work. in my own case i felt like -- there was a certain cognitive style that was...